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Aulacosphinctes
Taxonomy
Aulacosphinctes was named as a genus. It is not extant.
It was reranked as Perisphinctes (Aulacosphinctes) by Uhlig (1910).
It was assigned to Perisphinctes by Uhlig (1910); to Himalayitinae by Imlay and Jones (1970), Myczynski (1989); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Himalayitidae by Salazar and Stinnesbeck (2016).
It was reranked as Perisphinctes (Aulacosphinctes) by Uhlig (1910).
It was assigned to Perisphinctes by Uhlig (1910); to Himalayitinae by Imlay and Jones (1970), Myczynski (1989); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Himalayitidae by Salazar and Stinnesbeck (2016).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1910 | Perisphinctes (Aulacosphinctes) Uhlig |
| 1970 | Aulacosphinctes Imlay and Jones p. B3 |
| 1989 | Aulacosphinctes Myczynski p. 104 |
| 2002 | Aulacosphinctes Sepkoski |
| 2016 | Aulacosphinctes Salazar and Stinnesbeck p. 164 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Aulacosphinctes
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†Aulacosphinctes diabloensis Anderson 1945
†Aulacosphinctes jenkinsi Anderson 1945
†Aulacosphinctes proximus Steuer 1897
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Invalid names: Aulacosphinctes chilensis Corvalán 1959 [synonym]
†Perisphinctes (Aulacosphinctes) natricoides Uhlig 1910
†Perisphinctes (Aulacosphinctes) spitiensis Uhlig 1910
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 4 | 15.0 | 9.90 | 23.7 | 14.8 | 5.93 | |
| shell diameter | 4 | 39.9 | 23.6 | 62.9 | 42.4 | 17.9 | |
| shell inflation | 4 | 14.7 | 7.60 | 28.0 | 15.6 | 9.22 |
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Age range: base of the Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to the top of the Late/Upper Tithonian or 152.21000 to 143.10000 Ma
Collections (22 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxfordian - Berriasian | Spain | A. moerickeanus, A. quadri, A. parvulus, A. berriaselliformis, A. sp., A. rectefurcatus (73297) | |
| Kimmeridgian | Madagascar | A. humilis, A. retrosus (98167) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | Madagascar (Melaky) | A. humilis, A. retrorsus (234324) | |
| Early/Lower Tithonian | Italy (Ancona) | A. rectefurcatus (46540) | |
| Middle Tithonian | Chile | A. proximus (175925 175934) | |
| Middle Tithonian | Argentina (Neuquen) | A. sp. (135629 135630) | |
| Middle Tithonian - Late/Upper Tithonian | Chile | A. proximus (175930) | |
| Tithonian | China | A. moerikeanus, A. parvulus, A. hundesianus (64827) | |
| Tithonian | Yemen (Wadi Hajar) | A. spitiensis, A. natricoides (2615) | |
| Tithonian | USA (California) | A. jenkinsi, A. diabloensis (224818) A. sp. (151980) A. sp. juv. (220374) | |
| Tithonian | India (Gujarat) | A. sp. (64623) | |
| Late/Upper Tithonian | Chile | A. proximus (90555) | |
| Late/Upper Tithonian | India | A. latouchi (65882 65891) | |
| Late/Upper Tithonian | India (Gujarat) | A. sp. (66780) | |
| Late/Upper Tithonian | Peru | A. subvetustus (66401) | |
| Late/Upper Tithonian - Early/Lower Berriasian | Chile | A. proximus (151657 151658) |